Car-seal.



No. 679,979. Patentd Aug. 6, |9Ul. A. P. MILLER.

CAR SEAL.

(Application filed Oct. 22, 1900.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrc-n.

ALFRED P. MILLERQOF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO TI-IE'MlLLER CAR Locae SEAL COMPANY, or SAME PLACE.

GAR-SEAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 679,979, dated August6, 1901.

Application filed October 22,1900. S ri l N 33,390 (No model.)

'To all whom to may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFREDP. MILLER, a

resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain 5 new and useful Improvements in Oar-Seals,

of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to car-seals; and its object is to provide a simpleand efficient seal made from a single strip and having a novelconstruction for fastening or sealing the ends together. i

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View of the blank, tun size; Fig. 2,a similar View of a completed seal; Fig. 3, an edge View of the same;Fig. 4, an edge view of thestrip sealed; Fig. 5, a section on 'line 5 5of Fig.- 6; Fig.6, an enlarged View of one end of a seal, showing oneface, Fig. 7 showing the other face; and Fig. 8, an enlarged perspectiveof the cup end of thestrip or blank. i

As a convenient method of manufacture and as particularly wellillustrating this li'lvention the blank may be out to form the, strip 1,with the round ends 2 and 3. end'2 has asmall hole 4:,while the end 3has a comparatively large hole The end 3 is struck up so as to form acup-6, whose diameter equals that of'the end 2, which is in tended toiit in such cup. On the end 2 is formed an. eyelet 7, which is made of asize to pass through the hole 5,- -'l-lii s. eyelet is preferably madeslightly truncated, conical in form, soas to readily find the hole 5. As

shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 2, similar triangular spacesS are cut outnear the end 3,

so that the cup may be formed continuous except for a narrow opening 53,justwide enough to receive the narrow neck 10, immediately below the end2 of the strip.

The strip being passed through the parts to be locked or sealed, theends of the seal are brought together, with the end 2 resting in the cup6 and its eyelet 7 passing through the hole 5. By asnitahledouble-acting press the eyelet is now upset against the end 3,and the cup is folded over upon the end 2. The resulting seal is clearlyshown in Figs. atto 7 of the drawings.

When the cup'is formed, there result projecting pointsll at the opening9. These points are advantageous not only because The 2 I eyelet, thesaid hole receivingsnch eyelet and they afiord an extendedbinding-surface, as

shown in Fig. -7, but also because they aseach other firmly againstpossibility of iocs- 6c ening oncoming apart. In fact, the seal cannotbe removed without breaking it.

So far as the feature of the cup is broadly concerned it-Will beunderstood that such cup maybe used in connection with the eye- 65 letfeature or not, as may be desired, an efficient seal being provided bysimply bending thecup over theend of the seal which is re ceived withinit.

It is evident that obvious changes maybe made in the sizes andproportions of parts and that equivalent constructions may be adoptedwithout departing from the spirit and scope of my invention and claims.

The end 30f the strip after being struck up forms practically cup-shapedportion, which in the absence of a better term I am pleased to call acnp,- although it may have a side opening and in the preferred form abottom opening. So-

I claim- 1. A car-,seal formed in a single piece and comprising a striphaving at one end, and integral therewith, a cup to receive within itthe other end of the strip overwhich such cup is folded down.

23. Acar-Seal c'omprisingastrip having near one-end a hole and alsohaving a cup, the other end of the strip being provide-l with an the cupreceiving within it s the strip.

3. A car-seal comprising a strip having at one end a cup with a sideopening Sand having its other end formed so as t bereceived within thecup and provided with a neck 10 entering sa-idopening, the cup beingfolded over upon the strip received'within it.

f A car-seal comprising a strip 1 having at one end a hole 5 and also acup i with side opening 9 and'having at its other end 2' an eyelet 7 anda neck 10, the end 2 entering.

nch other end of 1 ,ing sn'cheyelh and the'cup receiving-within,-

mmgn the cup and its eyelet pilssing through formed ig-f3 single pinesand mheghole 5 and its neck beingreceived by saidcompmsmg ip havingatone'enmand in- "Side'bpeqingin the cup,-the-seal being saledtegraltherew th, a cup, 15h lithe;- end of the by upsetting the 'yeletand'foldipg down the strip-being adapted to lie 5- cnp.

- 'namgd gnd of thgstripnnd thin: the cup, 5;Acgvsealcomprisifigastriphaying near .the cup'beix'lg adapted tobe o1deddown upon ifbfia endahole and alsohaving a 'cup'with the end ofLhe stripso received within it.

iili-ojeipting'fgpoints "11, the,- oth'ei"'end uf'Ythe I:

j I I ALFRED P. MILLER. am havizjxg an eyplet,f the said' hole reeeiv-Witges s:

